Bob Eager wrote:

On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 23:18:39 +0000, Tim Watts wrote:

I looked in the wife's Mini the other day when topping up the screenwash
and realised that I don't actually know where the bloody battery
actually is! They've made everything else impossible/damn difficult to
DIY so I guess the battery was the last bastion of simplicity that
needed dealing with - *******s.

You'd have had fun finding it in the old Minis then...!

Or on the (later modles of) V12 Jaguars.